Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region /
In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
Published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University,
[2018]
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| Summary: | In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to the region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469646442 1469646447 9781469646459 1469646455 |